Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union’s Environment and Agriculture

Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union’s environment and agriculture

Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union most belong to the temperate continental climate. Winter cold, summer warmth, age season is shorter, annual temperature difference is big. Summer rain, moisture is mainly composed of west wind into the north Atlantic, annual rainfall of about 500 mm. Because the temperate zone continental climate of the annual average temperature is low, so the nutrients required for plant growth to long time to accumulate, so makes the crop growing period long. Daily range of temperature, sugar accumulation in favour of crops. Ample light during the day to get more photosynthesis.

The Soviet land resource is very rich, calculated on the population average per person is 0.88 hectares of arable land. In the planting industry is given priority to with food crops, including wheat and barley crops and 83.5% of the total area of the food crops, followed by corn, rice and beans. In the economic crops of cotton, flax, sugar beets, sunflower, potato and other crops yield first in the world. The Soviet union had 78% of the agricultural land and 65% of the cultivated land distribution in areas deficient of water, periodic drought and insufficient agricultural labor force, low mechanical efficiency, extensive cultivation such as the actual problem, cause the low level of per unit area yield of Soviet agriculture for a long time, total output is not very stable. Only 11 percent of the USSR's land was arable. 16 percent was meadows and pasture. 41 percent was forest and woodland. 

The agricultural environmental protection part of the Soviet union and eastern Europe countries

In the Soviet union and eastern Europe countries, the agricultural environment protection though not clearly divided from natural protection or environmental protection career, however, the content of the agricultural environment protection of natural protection or environmental protection has always been the main part. Such as tidings, regulation and protection water resources management and protection, forest care and protection, sewage treatment and purification, etc., are closely connected with the content of the agricultural environment protection